Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 've [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | where I 've never been , and , on the wall , |
| 2 | Do n't forget that you 've got an allowance each , and it 's not likely to affect many people , except where you 've perhaps been left something that you want to dispose of or a property that you want to dispose of , in which case there could be a capital gains liability . |
| 3 | The Ludicrous lads may lambast Carter for ‘ boldly going where we 've already been ’ on their new album , but another track , ‘ Bloody Proud ’ , bristles with blatant Fall references , including a riff suspiciously akin to ‘ Could n't Get Ahead ’ . |
| 4 | Although I 've always been saying that the lower ranked players should get more money , and we should re-distribute the money . |
| 5 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 6 | He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where . |
| 7 | I feel more tied down than I 've ever been before . |
| 8 | I 'm keeping at 11 stones and am fitter than I 've ever been . |
| 9 | I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm fitter than I 've ever been in my life . |
| 11 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 12 | And compared to me she 's a much better person than I 've ever been , she is , she 's wonderful , in , but granddad 's got a nice nature , granddad and that 's , that 's probably where she get 's it from , I 'm not . |
| 13 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 14 | First , you should recognize that you need to be much more self-reliant than you 've ever been before . |
| 15 | ‘ And a better son he is to me than you 've ever been a daughter ! ’ raged Lucier , whereupon Gabriel sat down in the mud and wept silently , his head clamped between his knees to shut out all sights and sounds . |
| 16 | ‘ We are more in love now than we 've ever been . |
| 17 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 18 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 19 | Erm the loyalist paramilitaries have become much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in their history . |
| 20 | They 're much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in the past . |
| 21 | And then it 'll look as if I 've hardly been . |
| 22 | I do n't know cos I 've never been brunette , Jackie . |
| 23 | Well personally , I 'd like to go to Lakeside , er , cos I 've never been and so many people have been I do n't . . |
| 24 | You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there . |
| 25 | If you 've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight has n't changed . |
| 26 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 27 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 28 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 29 | Erm , if you 've actually been down there , there are now smart plastic signs telling people what the building is , and giving all the details it looks very nice . |
| 30 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |